Eventually, the queen's kits are allowed to go outside the nursery for the first time since their birth, Brokenkit included. Chen’s stories in Broken Stars also serve as an intriguing teaser: Next month, his 2013 novel The Waste Tide will finally see an English publication—translated, naturally, by Liu. Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.

After being driven out of ShadowClan, Brokenstar and his team of rogues decide to raid the ThunderClan camp. When Raggedstar makes Brokenstar deputy, Brokenstar kills Raggedstar, one of the few cats who treated him with decency and his own father, to obtain ShadowClan's leadership. He is promoted to a warrior as Brokentail early and becomes the deputy after Cloudpelt dies in battle, despite his young age.The man knows his genre fiction, has a beautiful taste for good, thought-provoking sci-fi, and was also the translator of two of the three books in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Trilogy (which exploded in popularity in the West when recommended by President Obama himself – read our review here).

Starbound trilogy fans rejoice at the mention of a TV series; however, it’s largely unknown whether a series will come out in the future.Authors Kaufman and Spooner were, no doubt, thrilled about the prospect of transcending the characters through new media and considered who to cast as the lead roles with Off the Grid’s Eric Balfour as one of the first picks for Tarver. Since 2016, readers have anxiously awaited the premiere date, but unfortunately, the show may not continue.

By turns dazzling, melancholy and thought-provoking, Broken Stars celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of SFF voices emerging from China. Even as a blind and injured prisoner, Brokentail plots with Tigerclaw and takes part in a battle when Tigerclaw leads Brokentail's rogues to attack ThunderClan's camp in an attempt to kill Bluestar. Now, three years later, comes Liu’s newest anthology of contemporary Chinese science fiction: Broken Stars, which offers 16 more translated stories. After becoming a warrior early, Brokentail mentored Stumpytail and became deputy once Cloudpelt and Foxheart died.Written by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, “These Broken Stars” catapulted the reader’s attention to another dimension in time and space.